Friday, 30 April 2004, at 3:30 PM in Lowell Thomas 208

Speaker:

Charlie Steinhorn - Vassar College

Title:

Randomness and Modular Arithmetic

Abstract:

The random graph can be understood as the undirected graph whose vertices are the natural numbers such that edges between vertices are determined by flipping a coin. The first part of the talk focuses on the random graph from a naive probabilistic point of view. The second part of the talk deals with a particular class of finite graphs that ``approximate'' the random graph. The surprise here is that these finite graphs are constructed using modular arithmetic.


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